In this section the Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) provides you with selected, regularly updated M&A statistics worldwide and for various regions or industries. As a free user or individual / corporate member of our Institute you have full access and can also download M&A data and statistics with the actual numbers in spreadsheets (google sheets and excel format). Please see our Membership section to sign up.

M&A Heat Maps

The Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) publishes regularly Heat Maps. The most current heat maps have been published on January 09, 2019. In order to download a copy of the latest report, the detailed ranking, and graphs, please login with your account (if you have no account yet, you can register for free).

M&A Statistics – Number and Value and Largest M&A Transactions by Region

In this section, you find M&A statistics like Number & Value and Largest Transactions by region. We also report similar information for various Transaction Types, Industries, and Countries (please select the tab above).

Number & Value of M&A Worldwide

Since 2000, more than 790’000 transactions have been announced worldwide with a known value of over 57 trillion USD. In 2018, the number of deals has decreased by 8% to about 49’000 transactions, while their value has increased by 4% to 3.8 trillion USD.

Largest M&A Transactions Worldwide

The latest trasnactions to make it into the global top 10 transactions was Walt Disney’s acquistion of 21st Century Fox for 84 bil. USD in 2017 and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s acquisition of Celgene (see table below). Last year, two transactions got on the list of the top 50 (available as a download), nameley Cigna’s acquisition of Express Scripts, Tadeka Pharmaceutical’s acquisition of Shire.

Rank

Year

Acquirer Name

Target Name

Value of Transaction
(in bil. USD)

Value of Transaction
(in bil. EUR)

1

1999

Vodafone AirTouch PLC

Mannesmann AG

202,7

204.7

2

2000

America Online Inc

Time Warner

164,7

160,7

3

2013

Verizon Communications Inc

Verizon Wireless Inc

130.2

100.5

4

2007

Shareholders (Spin out)

Philip Morris Intl Inc

107.6

68.1

5

2015

Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV

SABMiller PLC

101.5

92,3

6

2007

RFS Holdings BV

ABN-AMRO Holding NV

98.2

71,3

7

1999

Pfizer Inc

Warner-Lambert Co

89.6

85.3

8

2017

Walt Disney Co

21st Century Fox Inc

84.2

72.5

9

2016

AT&T Inc

Time Warner Inc

79,4

72.9

10

2019

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co

Celgene Corp

79.4

69,7

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